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Place of Birth: Delhi, India
About Pavan Sukhdev
- Pavan Sukhdev is an Indian environmental economist whose field of studies include green economy and international finance.
- He was the Special Adviser and Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative, a major UN project suite to demonstrate that greening of economies is not a burden on growth but rather a new engine for growing wealth, increasing decent employment, and reducing persistent poverty.
- Pavan was also the Study Leader for the ground breaking TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) study commissioned by G8+5 and hosted by UNEP.
- Under his leadership, TEEB sized the global problem of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in economic and human welfare terms, and proposed solutions targeted at policy-makers, administrators, businesses and citizens.
- TEEB presented its widely acclaimed Final Report suite at the UN meeting by Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan.He is the Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a specialist consulting firm which helps governments and corporations discover, measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural and human capital.
- In recognition of his continuing work in helping governments and corporations transition towards a Green Economy, UNEP appointed Pavan as the UNEP Goodwill Ambassador in the year 2012.
- He was also selected as the “Personality of the Year” by, Environmental Finance in the year 2010.
- The Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (IEEM) have awarded Pavan their 2011 Medal.Pavan was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University from 2011 to 2014, where he was awarded the McCluskey Fellowship.
- Whilst at Yale, he wrote the book “Corporation 2020” which envisions tomorrow's corporation, and shows how corporations and society can and should work together to achieve common goals and build a green economy.He has chaired the World Economic Forum’s “Global Agenda Council” on Ecosystems and Biodiversity (2009-2011) and was a speaker at Davos in 2010 and 2011.
- He currently serves on the boards of Conservation International, Global Reporting Initiative, TEEB for Business Coalition, Gulbenkian Oceans Initiative (GOI) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
- Till 2018 he is president of the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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